Unconference - Podcasting

Dave Mileham

Prior use in classroom

• Oral reading fluency
• Book reports
• ESL students
• Foreign language
• Record lessons - Post on teachers Web sites.

Recording

• Goldway
• Audacity (LAME mp3 encoder - download also)
• Incompetech.com - free royalty free music, can be searched by genre

iTunes for searching educational podcasts

• Free broadcasts / podcasts
• Parental blocks
• College courses (University of South Florida, K-12 ELA - You can download books/chapters)
• Grammar Girl
• Suscribe with RSS Feeds for new updates
• Foreign language podcasts.
• Learn to speak a foreign language
• iTunesU

Where to host Podcasts?

• School Web sites
• PowerMedia Plus
• iTunes
• Search for free podcasting sites
• http://www.archive.org/index.php will host podcasts

Some great examples

• Baslercast on iTunes - Physics podscasting, narrates PowerPoint slides (jpeg), SMARTboard recordings
• http://www.cutepdf.com/ - Free download, take PPT and podcast presentation, links are still active

What to use?

• Logitech microphones to record lessons.